Shippingport
Shippingport, Pa., United
States
Pressurized Light-Water Breeder Reactor (PLWBR)
Net Output: 60 MWe
Decommissioned. Date started: 12/1957. Date closed : 10/1982.
The Shippingport
Atomic Power Station
[SAPS] was managed
by Duquesne Light
Company for the U.S.
Department of
Energy. It was
located one mile
southeast of
Midland,
Pennsylvania,
immediately to the
west of Beaver
Valley Power Station
Units 1 & 2. This 90
MWe pressurized
water reactor
demonstration plant
was shutdown in 1974
and converted to a
light water breeder
reactor, and resumed
operations on
October 1, 1977.
SAPS terminated
operations on
October 1, 1982 and
has since been
decommissioned and
decontaminated.
